Once you have deployed your application and its in production environment.

If you want to check the health of Azure services which are running in any of the geographical location which you have choosen as afinity while creating the service project.

Microosft offers the health status of each and every Azure service running in all the data centers.

It shows health for current day to last 6 more days, liste under “Status History” sections towards the bottom of the page.

You can check the health of the services by following this url http://status.windowsazure.com/

Windows Azure team developed a new Azure based feature, known as TownHall.

This is a software which will aloow to create applications where people seek opinions, message-boards, vote etc. TownHall applications will be based on REST API in the Azure which will enable the delivery of clients on a number of platforms, in order to store the collected data, database used for this will be on SQL Azure.

There is no License fee for TownHall, you only pay for the WindowsAzure. Some common scenarios where TownHall can be used:

• Event hosting as offered by evite etc
• Engagement with communities
• Message boards
• Vote
• Fan clubs , followers etc

You can see a TownHall sample at http://www.microsofttownhall.com/ . You can try this site by clicking on “Log in” link on the top-left of this web site. Using the login name – demouser and password – demopassword
Note- I am not sure how long this site is available for demo purpose.

You can download the design templates, themes for TownHall development from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/TownHall/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4209

Windows Azure is Cloud computing technology from Microsoft.

Azure is the term which is also considered as a synonym for “blue color“, Azure alsos refers to a bright blue color, resembling the sky like it apperass on a bright and clear day.